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It makes you wonder.......who is stupid ???  or just doesn't get it??  This email comes in three parts....Make sure you read all three parts! It is longer than most, but worth the read.

Part 1
Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following:

A little over one year ago:

1. Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2. Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3. The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1. Consumer confidence plummet;
2. The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $4.10 a gallon;
3. Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4. American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5. Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6. 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
7. Food prices skyrocketing over 30% in 1 year.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!  Remember, it is Congress that makes the laws and spends our money not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

Part 2:
Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. Verify at: http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.HTML

Barack Obama promises to return to the higher tax rates if elected. It is amazing how many people who fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If elected, Barack Obama has already promised that he will repeal the Bush tax cuts, and amazingly, a good portion of the people who fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen.

PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?   Read this: Boy, am I confused.  I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.  Read on...

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.  I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://wwwcis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.CNN.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.HTML
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at: http://transcripts..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.  Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl..com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of  between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'  Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.' Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
    

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. Are we THAT stupid? If this doesn't bother you, then just delete the message.  If, on the other hand, it  raises the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you continue to forward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C

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• People are paying more to see movies now.

• Families are cutting expenses due to higher gas prices.
• Many people wait for DVDs to come out later in the year, as opposed to 10 - 20 years ago when VHS movies might not be released for 18 - 24 months.  Plus people can have the theater experience at home.
• Shorter lifespan at the theaters, probably due to the point above.
  
• Movie piracy, I am not saying that it did not exist 10 - 20 years ago.  But it is a tad more wide spread than it was.

Note, as conferance championships are determined and the rankings are finallized, I am going to update this post.
 
Well thanks to the OSU - Michigan game, and West Virginia - Cincinnati playing later tonight.  I have been thinking of the BCS Bowl Games and how it compares to a playoff system in college football.  I think I have been in favor of a playoff system in the past, but I think the bowl system work.  It just needs fine tuning.  Here is my thoughts on the subject.  There are 11 Division I-A conferances in college football.  Based off of a quick glance at ESPN, there are the ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Conference USA, Mid American, Mountain west, Pacific 10, SEC, Sun Belt, and WAC Conferances.  So lets have a 6 bowl game system which features the conferance champion of each conferance plus either the highest rated independent school, or if they all suck, the highest ranked non champion. 
 
The BCS National Championship game would feature the two highest ranked conferance champions.  Ideally they should be ranked as #1 and #2.  I mean, if you don't win your conferance, how should you expect to be in the national chapionship game?  Also, take out the human polls.  Base the rankings on the computer scores.  Last year I was pumped for a OSU/Michigan rematch in the national championship game.  But how messed up would it be to reconize OSU as the Big Ten Champion and Michigan as the National Champion?  That type of thing would just make the conferance championship somewhat meaningless.  The rest of the bowl games should feature the rest of the conferance champions either based on thier rank, or just by a lottery process.  So this would add 1 more BCS bowl.
 
Now in the case of conferances like the Big Ten who can have co-champions.  Either they get a conferance championship game, have tie breaking proceedures based on heads up play, or the BCS will reconize the highest ranked "co champion" as the BCS reconized champion for that conferance.
 
Here are the current list of conferance champions (CPU rank, Current BCS rank):
ACC - Virginia Tech (#1, #3)
Big 12 - Oklahoma (#6, #4)
Big East - West Virginia (#10, #9)
Big Ten - Ohio State University (#3, #1)
Conference USA - UCF (Unranked)
Mid American - Miami (Unranked)
Mountain west - Brigam Young (#19, #17)
Pacific 10 - Could not find
SEC - LSU (#2, #2)
Sun Belt - Florida Atlantic (Unranked) (Florida Atlantic won the conference's automatic bowl bid through a tiebreaker by virtue of its head-to-head victory against Troy.)
WAC - Hawaii (#12, #10)
Independent OR Highest Ranked Non Conferance Champion - Missouri (#4, #6)
 
And based on the CPU rank, here would be your money game.
BCS Championship Game: Virginia Tech vs LSU
 
The other 10 teams would play in other bowl games.

What do you think?